Food Fight! Thousands take place in messy festival

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Food Fight! Thousands take place in messy festival

San Diego, Ca (CNN) – It’s a California twist on a Spanish tradition. Saturday thousands of people headed to San Diego for a messy festival. Participants were all seeing red and were ready for a war…of sorts.

Participants used 46,000 pounds of tomatoes for the celebration. Don’t worry about wasting food though, the tomatoes used are past ripe and would otherwise be thrown away.